The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 67 - 67
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 9 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 1.291% - 0.461%
As % of the System Software category 8.036% - 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 3
Average salary £40,000 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +5.59%
All System Software
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
112 62 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 16.07% 11.17% 4.608%
Number of salaries quoted 108 57 28
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
East of England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing vSphere across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Suffolk vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing vSphere across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Ipswich - 6 £40,000 -
Stowmarket - 1 £40,000 -
Woodbridge - 1 £40,000 -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £32,500 -
Felixstowe - 1 £40,000 -
vSphere
East of England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing vSphere also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited vSphere.

1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (72.22%) MS Exchange
3 11 (61.11%) Windows
4 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
5 9 (50.00%) Citrix
5 9 (50.00%) SAN
6 8 (44.44%) NetApp
6 8 (44.44%) VPN
6 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
6 8 (44.44%) Firewall
7 7 (38.89%) VMware ESX
7 7 (38.89%) VBScript
7 7 (38.89%) MS Excel
7 7 (38.89%) XenServer
7 7 (38.89%) XenDesktop
8 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (33.33%) Cisco
8 6 (33.33%) DNS
8 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (27.78%) OSPF
9 5 (27.78%) BGP
9 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
10 4 (22.22%) Juniper
10 4 (22.22%) Migration
10 4 (22.22%) SLA
10 4 (22.22%) DHCP
10 4 (22.22%) MS Office

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region citing vSphere also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) XML
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 13 (72.22%) MS Exchange
2 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Excel
2 4 (22.22%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) SAN
2 8 (44.44%) VPN
2 8 (44.44%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) DNS
4 5 (27.78%) OSPF
4 5 (27.78%) BGP
5 4 (22.22%) DHCP
6 3 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (16.67%) Ethernet
6 3 (16.67%) SSL
6 3 (16.67%) IPsec
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (11.11%) Internet
7 2 (11.11%) IPv6
7 2 (11.11%) WAN
7 2 (11.11%) SNMP
7 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (11.11%) LAN
8 1 (5.556%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Debian
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.556%) UNIX
5 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (11.11%) Document Management
5 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CCNP
1 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.556%) MCTS
2 1 (5.556%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (38.89%) VMware ESX
3 7 (38.89%) XenServer
3 7 (38.89%) XenDesktop
4 4 (22.22%) VMFS
5 2 (11.11%) Terminal Services
5 2 (11.11%) NFS
6 1 (5.556%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Nagios
1 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) Citrix
3 8 (44.44%) NetApp
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco
5 4 (22.22%) Juniper
6 3 (16.67%) Dell
7 2 (11.11%) EMC
8 1 (5.556%) Oracle
8 1 (5.556%) HP
8 1 (5.556%) NETGEAR